the cold womb of the Earth with an heavenly fire and adjoyned to the drie globe of the Earth the moist nature of Water that so by the mixture of two generative causes moist and hot the sterility of the Earth might be helped and that by the mediation of the concourse and mixture of all the Elements the Earth might be made a natural Vessel for fruitfull Generation Therefore all Elements and all qualities are in the Earth 62. The body of the Earth was rightly created by the great God of a spongeous nature that so there might be a receptacle for Air Showers and heavenly Influences and also that the moist vapours being expelled by the force of inward heat from the Centre to the Superficies through the porous passages of the Earth might by a mean putrefaction corrupt the seeds of things and so prepare for generation these being thus disposed receive that enlivening and heavenly heat For Nature hath sunk in the depths a magnetick love by the actings of which they draw down and suck out the efficacy and virtue of things above which do increase the strength of the information and hasten the sweetness of vital Air 63. The heat that comes from the inwards of the Earth is moist and impure and doth corrupt by reason of the tainted mixture of Earth and Water But the most pure and heavenly doth generate by excitation dilatation and furthering the inbred heat to life even that inbred heat which is hidden in the seeds of things and as Natures secret closed in their centre But because both these heats are of the same kind they have a joynt and amicable operation in the act of generation and are inseparably united until they are brought forth to life and large vegetation 64. Water is of a middle nature betwixt what is thick and what is of a thin nature betwixt the Earth and the Air Natures menstruum a volatile body flying and not enduring fire drawn forth by a moderate heat into a vapour assuming multiplyed shapes more unstable than Proteus 65. The moist Element is Mercurie which sometimes assuming the nature of a bodie sometimes of a spirit doth attract to himself by his revolutions the virtues of superiour and inferiour Beings and as it were receiving their instructions doth trade in commerce as their agent or factor amongst the remotest natures of the Universe neither will he leave his trafficquing till all the Elements of the corruptible Nature receive their fixation and purgation by fire and there issue upon it an Universal Sabbath 66. Water being the nearest in nature to the first matter doth easily receive her impress The Chaos the ancient Parent of all things was a kind of subtile and dark vapour a kind of a moist dark substance like a thin smoak from whose most subtile part the Heavens are drawn forth into order which a three-fold difference divides into a three-fold province to wit the Supream which is the noblest the middle which assumes the second place of dignity and honour the lowest is inferiour to the other two both in scite and honour The thicker substance of the matter went to the making of that watry heap which is a middle nature The thickest part which is as it were the dregs of the whole Mass sate down to the bottom and was setled for the globe of the Earth The extremities of this artifice to wit the Heaven and the Earth did recede more from the first state of their matter and from their ancient shape the Heaven in regard of its great rarity and levity the Earth in respect of its great density and gravity But the Water which was a mean betwixt them continued a nature more like the first formless Abyss from whence it proceeds so that with ease it turns it self by rarefaction into smoak or vapour which is the image of the ancient Hyle or first Matter 67. Moisture is more proper to Water than Coldness because Water is of a greater rarity and more lightsom than Earth but those things which communicate most of light are farthest off from cold the morâ—rarity there is in any thing the nearer vicinity there is to light Wateâ— retained the symbole of moisture from the first matter the Abyss as the Earth coldness For the Architect Spirit of the World divided the more thick parts into those two nearly-allied Natures 68. Coldness wooes Driness and invests it self with it where it is vigorously predominant by the constriction of moist beings and by the desiccation of them as is evident in Snow Ice and Hayl For it is the work of Nature to bind and drie the Water than which nothing is more humid by the proper instrument of Cold yea the principal and common subject of Heat and Cold is humidity by both which it is so strongly assailed till it be conquered from whence it falls out that in Autumn so many drie leaves fall at the first cold that the stalks of feeble Plants upon the strength of Winter in the height of Drought are void of moisture and drie away The cold penetrating doth so scorch and makes so furious an assult upon the vital humours hence proceeds flaggy and withered age at length death comes and cuts down all with his well-set sickle and sweeps you into his general Granary How then can any one conceive Cold to be friendly to Moisture and to be its inherent property Since Nature suffers not the Elements to act against each other lest they should destroy and oppose each the others powers but an intense Cold quickly would bring under a remiss and weak moisture and would swallow it up all by a violent constriction so that by this means one of the Elements being lost there would necessarily follow an imperfection in the work of the rest and a deficiency in the generation of all things It is therefore not suitable to the Law of Nature to invest Water with the property of being cold in the highest degree 69. Out of these solider Natures of Earth and Water doth Nature extract her Elements by which she compacts Vessels and corporeal Organs for out of the commixture of both is made a clay which is the next matter of things in generation for it is in stead of the Chaos In which virtually and confusedly are all Elements Out of this clay was the first Father of mankind created and after all Generation issued from it In the Generation of creatures is a clay made of the seed and the menstruum from whence proceeds the living Creature In the production of Vegetables the seeds do first fall into a subtile clay by putrefaction and then are wrought up to a vegetable body In the generation of Mettals there comes forth a clay from the perfect mixture of Sulphur and Mercury and their resolution in a fat Water by which means the mettallick bodies are indurated by a long decoction In the Philosophical resolving of mettals and in the creation of that Philosophical Secret first is brought forth a
heat 93. The second universal Agent is that same light not so immediately issuing from the Fountain but reflected from solid bodies inlightened by it as the heavenly yea the Earth it self for the light of the Sun beating upon those bodies gives a motion to their dispositions and faculties and alters them and diffuseth their several and different virtues by the reflection of his rays through the whole frame of Heaven and of our Air for by those rays as by so many conveyances are the various effects of several bodies dispersed every where for the benefit and harmony of Nature which are called by us Influences These are the true and first Elements of Nature which because they are spiritual do communicate themselves to us under some airy or also some watry Nature to whose good act as to the roots of the Elements we are beholding for the gift of every birth and of all life 94. Love styled by Plato the Eldest of the gods was breath'd into nature begotten by the Divine Spirit and hath the place of a Genius in her dispositions In the first Division of the World betwixt the first brothers she gave the judgement for the partitions of their families and after had alwayes the Praefecture in Generation 95. The God of Nature did fix the first bond of Love in the things of Nature between the first Matter and the universal Form the Heaven and the Earth Light and Darkness Plenty and Poverty Beauty and Deformity The second degree of Love from the first couple which is as it were the loving embraces of the Parents issued into the Elements which having a fraternal tye to bind them have divided betwixt them the whole right of Nature The third and last degree is compleated in mixed bodies which excites them by the in-born and in-bred sparkles of love to a propagation and multiplication of their like The Divine Love hath appointed this treble Love-knot as a kind of Magical tye that it might deliver it self by traduction into all and every part of his workmanship Love is the Base of the Universe the Cube of Nature and the fastening bond of things above and below 96. Let those avaunt therefore who do attribute the concordant motions of Nature to Discord for Nature is peaceable and pleasant in all her workings yea she is delightfully tickled in her actings The very Elements of things in their coition are wholly lost in love that they may knit themselves together by their mutual embraces and of many be made one 97. Let the Academies stand up and tell us how the first Matter can be the first subject of contraries and how Love can lye amongst the brawlings and jarres of Enmity or that eager appetite which the Prince of Philosophers acknowledgeth residing in the heart of this Matter whereby it doth as earnestly lust for its form as a man for a woman Will not those enemies constituting the seeds of Beings and the mixt bodies by their eternal food at length force Love and Concord to yield to their ruine 98. They that placed a lust between the Matter and the Form and yet an hatred and repugnancy in the Matter it self and in the Elements in making these contraries have made themselves so for according to the dictates of their School the Soul in all things generated onely man excepted is brought forth out of the power and privy virtue of the Matter But how can this be without love If the Matter radically doth lye under the dissentions of contraries must not the Form which springs from her very root feel the same portion Nay would it not be stifled by them in its first birth and cradle What man therefore that stood right in his wits would acknowledge the rule of these bandetties to be chief in the nuptials of Love and Nature in the very juncture of the mixture of the Elements and of the information of the Matter Yea who would expect an uniform and not a monstrous issue from the heterogeneous seed of opposite parents 99. Let therefore the Philosopher surcease to place the cause of the alteration of Elements of the corruption and failing of mixt beings in the repugnancy of the Elements but rather lay the fault upon the penurious weakness of the first matter For in the first Chaos 'Twixt moist and drie there was no battel fought Nor any enmitie 'twixt cold and hot It is indeed the Vulgar conceit that there was whereas onely two no way contrary of those four qualities to wit Cold and Moisture agreed to the female the matter and were in it The other two which are Heat and Drought which are masculine and formal qualities came forth out of the part of the informing light And the Earth was not called Drie Land before the drawing off the Waters and the coming on of the light Being which was first moist and covered with Waters 100. Therefore certainly reason it self doth evidence that those four qualities which by the Vulgar are accounted repugnant are not extant in the first matter unless after information And lest she might endure some contrariety in its solitude she had other diseases to wit Darkness Confusion Deformity Coldness an indigested Moisture with an impotency which are all evidences of a diseas'd and languishing body Therefore being infected from its creation with that corruption it derived it down to its posterity lodged in this lowest and weakest Region of the elements Therefore it is not set down in Genesis of that Abyss of Darkness that it was very good but reserv'd that gracefull Elogie for the Light and for the rest that were created 101. But who is there that hath the least dram of knowledge will conceive that this contentious repugnancy did flow from the form into the matter after the union of the four qualities in the matter being informed Since it is essential to and the intent of the form to adde a perfection to the matter and compleatly to perfect it into an harmony and consent and a temperament according to its ability 102. The first contraries through opposing qualities were Light and Darkness Light hath two qualities Heat and Drougth Darkness as many Cold and Moisture wholly opposite each to other because of their intention But after those two aged principles of Nature came together and the dark material and female principle was informed by the lightsom formal and masculine principle and impregnated by the light the whole matter of the Universe and all the Regions thereof received this priviledge of light though distinct in the degrees and differences for that fiery tincture of the Spirit of light left nothing unpierced and the four qualities also at first being in their highest degree were brought down to a remission in the informed matter and so closing sweetly contracted a fast friendship and consented to a temperature and so being made friendly they were entered into the homogeneous family of the Elements that so there might nothing of repugnancy or enmity lurk in the
generation of mixt bodies whereby the pleasing motion of Nature might be disturbed 103. Neither in nature are those four qualities contrary one to another but onely divers and unlike one to another neither do they ruin but unite into a firm league one with another So Heat and Cold in a remiss degree do amicably agree and commix in one and the same subject that a middle and temperate quality to wit a lukewarness might be produced But if in the intense degree they couple not without a fight and combat this proceeds from the excess and tyranny of the intension which cannot endure two qualities equally heightened and adverse to be partners and sharers of one and the same Sovereignty but there will fall out a tumult But indeed Nature casteth out intense qualities as bastards and strangers 104. Let not therefore any fancy that Nature admits fire intense into the family of her Elements for such a fire would be fit for destruction not generation would not be according to but against Nature which avoids violent things and delights in a temperature in which is no fighting no contrariety For the Rule of Nature cannot away with the rage of a scorching heat or a wasting cold or the distemper of moist and drie but doth pleasingly lye down in a composed temperature Let not any therefore search for the intense qualities in the Elements of things he will find them in them either less or more remitted 105. He is deceived therefore who says that hot and cold moist and drie are simple contraries For the Earth which by Aristotle is laid down as drie in the highest should always quarrel with the Air which is said by him to be moist in the highest Also Water that is cold in the highest according to his opinion should be opposite to Fire that is hot in the highest and this repugnancy would inclose by force every one of the common Elements or every Region of the World within the verge of its sphear and by reason of this antipathie would destroy all hospitality betwixt them But we are convinced of the contrary both by reason and experience For ditches and all hollow places under the Earth yea the very bowels and pores of the Earth are replenished with Air and the intrinsical moisture of the Earth by which as with their mothers milk all Vegetables are nourished is nothing else but an hot and moist Air cleaving close to the Earth and handing it as a nursive and nourishing faculty the pores of the Earth are the dugs and the airy moisture the milk by which she the Mother and Nurse of things doth nourish her off-springs and give them growth 106. They who settle four Elements in as many humours do grant that Nature being moist is receiveable yea is the subject of four Elementary qualities how then can they hold a contrariety in them which they place in one and the same subject For though those four humours are distinguished by their respective differences yet have they but one base one common root to all to wit Humour for yellow choller which resembles fire is no less an humour than flegm which resembles water and the same may be said of adust Choller and Bloud although they do not absolutely but comparatively confound the four Elements in a moist Being 107. If there were any repugnancy in the qualities and elements of Nature the greatest would be betwixt hot and cold and so betwixt Water and Fire but the nature of these are not adversary many generations which are under the Waters do evidence for wheresoever there is any generation or life there must be fire as the nearest intrinsical efficient moving and altering cause of the matter for generation Hence Men Beasts and the Fowls their Being have And ghastly Monsters rowling on a wave A fiery vigour to their seeds is given The homage for their birth is due to Heaven 108. There fore certainly he will be in the right who shall acknowledge those four first qualities inborn and essential to the things themselves and to their Elements to be apt to a mixture by the direction of Nature and not contrary for they are as it were four Organs or instruments which Nature makes use of in the perfecting of her alterations and generations 109. Nature sets up a Potters trade for she is wholly taken with making her matter circular these four qualities are as the wheels by which she doth by degrees and wisely inform her works through a circular and slow motion 110. Of those four Wheels two viz those of Moist and Drie are most agreeable to the matter because Nature doth turn and work the matter between these two those two qualities are nearest the matter because more subject to be passive and to a change But the other two to wit of Hot and Cold are more of action because by their turns they alter and change the former these are passive those active are as it were the active instruments of Nature working upon her passive matter 111. Let us therefore cast off that tenent of Contraries as contrary to natures concord and dash out it with a pen of iron with the good leave of learning from the depraved table of Philosophy and let us in the room of it inscribe the Symbole of Concord which Nature doth acknowledge of the same standing with her self by whose help the delightfull copulation of actives with passives is procured in every Generation 112. Those who according to the flying opinion do stand for four Elements contrary each to other do necessarily introduce a fifth as the knot or bond-tye of concord as the Peace-maker otherwise they could not receive any perfect mixture or any temperature in the work of generation but without a rudder or a ruler would float a drift through the vast Ocean of Nature never able to reach a port or bring forth a birth and so would they cheat the common Genius of Nature of her proper end 113. For these four being acknowledged by reason of their repugnant qualities to keep up an eternal war betwixt themselves cannot be united or appeased in the generation of mixt Beings but rather with their mutual conflict rushing in will procure an Abort than a birth in Nature unless their contrary actings be composed to a peaceable love by the part of some fifth heavenly and tempering Nature which may introduce a temperature void of Hot and Cold Drie and Moist 114. That fifth Element as they call it or heavenly and incorruptible Spirit springing from the light motion and virtue of the heavenly bodies upon these lower Beings and preparing the Elements for motion and life and stopping from ruin particular individuals as far as their setledness will permit hath merited the name of the salt Nature the tie of the Elements the Spirit of the world to be given it by the searchers of occult Philosophie 115. If there were any contrariety between the principles of things certainly it was between Light and Darkness
136 Sublimation is the conversion of a moist and a ponderous nature into a light or the exhalation of it into a vapour The end and benefit of it is three-fold First that a gross and impure body might be mundefied by attenuation and might by degrees be drawn off the dregs then that by sublimation it might gain the higher virtues which continually flow down Lastly that by such an evacuation the Earth might be disburthened of its superfluous and loading humours which seizing upon its passages do hinder the action of the heat and the free pass of the natural spirits yea do violently choak them This drawing away of the superfluous moisture takes away the cause of obstructions and gives ease to the squeazy stomach of the Earth and makes it more fit for digestion 137. But the Moisture is sublimated by the impulsive operation of heat For Nature useth her fire as its proper instrument for rarefaction of moist bodies Therefore the Vapours that generates Clouds Rain are most frequently drawn up in the Fall and Spring because then the womb of the Earth doth more abound with hot and moist now Moisture is the material and Heat the efficient cause of exhalations Nature doth shew a kind of intense heat in sublimation whilest it is bound in within the terms and latitude of temperature 138. Demission is the second wheel of Nature in the work of Circulation is the returning of the spirituous Vapour into a gross and watry body or the Refusion of a rarefied and sublimated humour being again condensed and its descent into Earth that it may dilute it of its exuberant liquour and suck it up by a sweet and celestial draught 139. Nature doth intend three things by irrigation First that it might not pour out but by degrees distil its abundant humour lest there fall out a gulf and by the abundance of water the passage for the vivifical spirit in the bowels of the earth be dammed up and the intrinsecal heat of the Earth be extinguished for that wise and righteous Governess doth dispense all her benefits in number weight and measure Secondly that it might distribute the humour by divers drops and by a various manner to wit a Rain sometimes larger sometimes less sometimes a dew sometimes a hoar frost sometimes pouring out a greater sometimes a less plenty that so it might water the Earth according to its appetite or necessity thirsting for more or less Thirdly that these irrigations or waterings may be not continual but by turns and betwixt other works for the Sun doth in its course succeed the Showers and the Showers in theirs the Sun the day the night and the night the day 140. The lightest Cold or the departing Heat doth unloose and make fit to fall those vapours that are brought up into the middle Region and there frozen For an immoderate heat doth dissipate and hinders their condensation and an intense heat doth so knit and freeze them that they cannot produce a humour that may be fit to fall down 141. The last wheel or action of the Circulation of Nature is Decoction which is nothing else but the digestion ripening and conversion into aliment of a crude humour instilled on the bosom of the Earth This seemeth to be the end and the scope of the others because it is the release of their labour and a receiving of the food attained by the former labours For that crude humour by force of that internal heat is chewed concocted and digested by it being as it were without motion and in a trance silently and without noise moving that secret fire as the proper instrument of Nature that it may turn that crude liquour tempered with driness into a food This is the compleat circle of Nature which she rowls round by various degrees of labour and heat 142 These three operations of Nature are so knit together and have such a relation each to the other that the beginning of the one is the end of the other and according to Natures intention they do in a necessary order succeed one another by turns And the orders of these vicistitudes are so interwoven and linkt together as that combining to the good of the whole they do in their operations prove serviceable each to other 143 Yet Nature is forcedly sometimes drawn out of her bounds and verges and ranges in an uncertain path especially in the guidance of the moist Element whose orders being interrupted do deceive and they do easily as well as suffer wrong by reason of the inconstancy of its volatile and flitting nature as also by reason of the various disposition of the superiour bodies which do bend these things below especially Moisture and draw them from their setled track according to the beck of the Sovereign Moderatour who doth use them as Organs and Instruments to the motion of the frame of the Universe Hence is raised the deceitfull and inconstant temperature of this our Mansion and the changed seasons of the year So doth the womb of the Earth being diversly affected bring forth either more plentifully or more sparingly generous or castling births So doth the bordering Air being either pure or impure produce either health or sickness the moist Nature rowling and tossing all things amongst us 144 The Rule of our Heavens is uncertain and deceitful to us because things below receive their orders from things above whose natures and affections are for the most part unknown to us yet let the Philosopher set always before his eyes the intention rather than the action of Nature the order rather than the disturbance of the order 145 We may observe the volubility or flittingness of the moist Nature not onely in the general harmony of the World but also in the particular of mixed Beings For they are generated by the revolution of Moisture they are nourished and grow by drying moistening and digesting wherefore those three operations of nature are resembled to food drink and sleep because meat answers to driness drink to moisture and sleep to concoction 146 Lest man should dream fancies to himself glory in divers priviledges assume to himself as proper onely to him the name of Microcosm or the Worlds lesser draught because there are discernable in his material workmanship an Analogie of all the natural motions of the Microcosm or the larger Volume of the World let him consider that every creature even a worm that every plant even the weed of the Sea is a lesser world having in it an epitome of the greater Therefore let man seek for a world out of himself and he shall find it every where for there is one and the same first Copy of all creatures out of which were made infinite worlds of the same matter yet in form differenced Let therefore man share humility and lowliness of spirit and attribute to God glory and honour 147 The inferiour natures are leavened by the superiour But the Water not enduring delay doth hast to meet the operations of the
the compleatly mixed body because their parts have a correspondence proportionable with the parts of the world and have a kind of Analogie with them we may call them by the same names the more solid parts Earth the moister Water the more spiritual Air the inborn heat Nature's fire the hidden and essential virtues a man may safely term Heavenly and Astral Natures or the Quint-Essence and so every mixed body may by this Analogie triumph in the title of Micro-cosme 53. He that did appoint the first Elements for the generation of bodies alone knows how out of them to make all particulars and to resolve them being made into them again 54. Let not them therefore refuse the Light who working about the Elements of Nature either in the production of some body from them or the resolution of some into them create their own trouble since these Elements are onely subject to the dominion of Nature and delivered to her onely from their beginning altogether unknown to all our art and not compassible by our endeavours 55. The Element of Nature may be termed the most simple portion of the first matter distinguished by its peculiar difference and qualities constituting a part of the essence in the material composition of mixt bodies 56. By the Elements of Nature are denoted the material principles of which some have a greater purity and perfection than others according to the greater Power and Virtue of that form that gives the compleatment They are for the most part distinguished according to their rarity or density so that those that are more thin and approch nearer to a spiritual substance are therefore the more pure and light and so are the more fit for motion and action 57. Upon this ground it was that reverend Antiquity did seign that the whole Empire of the world was divided between the three Brothers the Sons of Saturn as coheirs because it acknowledged onely three Elementary Natures or rather three parts of the Universe For by Jupiter the Omnipotent who shared heaven as his portion armed with his treble-darted Thunder-bolt superiour to the rest of the brothers what did those professours of mysteries understand but that the Heavens being the Region of heavenly bodies do assume a priviledge of Sovereignty over these inferiour beings But they placed Juno wife to Jupiter to praeside over the lowest Region of the Heaven or our Air because this Region troubled with vapours being moist and cold is as it were in a manner defiled and impure and nearest approaching to a female temperament as also because it is subjected to the orders of the higher Regions receive their effects and communicates them to us twisting it self with more condensed natures and stooping them to the bent of Heaven But because male and female differ onely in sex not in kind therefore would they not have the Air or the lower Heaven to be distinct in its essence and kind as another Element from the higher Heaven but onely diversified in place and by accidents To Neptune the god of the Sea they attributed a dominion over the waters By Pluto the lord of the lower parts abounding in wealth they denoted the Globe of the Earth replenished with riches with the desire of which the minds of men being inflamed are bitterly tormented So that those wise men admitted of three parts of the Universe or if you please of three Elements because under the Nature of Heaven they comprized the name of Fire and therefore did they draw Jupiter armed with his Thunder 58. We are Schollars to experience in this that all the bodies of mixt beings have their analysis and resolution into drie and moist and that all the excrements of creatures are terminated by the same differences from whence it is clearly evident that their bodies are made up onely of two sensible Elements in which notwithstanding the other are virtually and effectually But Air or the Element of the lower Heaven is not the object of our sense because in respect of us it is a kind of spiritual being The fire of Nature because it is the formal principle cannot be wrought to any separation or comprehension by any destruction by way of resolution nor by any art or artifice of man For the nature of Forms is not subjected to the censure of the Senses because of its spiritual being 59. The Earth is the thickest body of the Universe therefore is it accounted the heaviest and the centre of it we must assert its nature contrary to the received opinion to be accidentally drie because it doth retain most of the close and dark nature of the first matter but a shade and darkness are the coverts of cold from whence they flie the light and are diametrically opposite to it but the Earth in respect of its extream density is the mother of shade and darkness hardly passable by light and heat therefore roughly knit by an heightened cold And for this reason black choller is to be esteemed the coldest humour of all because it is under the power of the Earth the Earth under Saturns who is accounted the Authour of a cold and melancholick temperature Further those things that are ingendered in the bowels of the Earth of the substance of the Earth as Marble and Stones are of a cold nature although we must otherwise conceive of mettals because they are rather of an airy nature and have in them sparkles of the Fire of Nature and a spirit of Sulphur congealing their moist and cold matter Yet Mercurie surpassing the rest in moisture and cold is beholding to the Earth for his coldness and to the Water for his moisture It is otherwise with those things that are produced in the Sea as in Amber and Coral and many other things that have their beings from the Sea and fresh Waters which as it is apparent are of a hot temper so that we have this instruction both from reason and experience that the greatest coldness is to be attributed to the Earth not to the Water 60. But driness doth agree to the Earth accidentally onely and in a remiss degree for it was created in the middest of the Waters and the order of beings required that in respect of its gravity being sunk in the Waters it should never separate from them but the Creatour using his Prerogative having removed the Waters gave to it an open surface that so there might be room made both for the creation of mixed Beings and for their habitation The Earth therefore was enfranchiz'd from its natural yoke of bondage and subjection to the Waters not by any order of Nature but by a priviledge of favour that so having its face wipt it might lift up a dry visage to the view of the Heavens and might partake of the welcome light of the world 61. Every cold and drie is averse from the faculty of Generation unless it be helped out by some eternal helps therefore it was the will of the Supream Authour of Nature to heat